dr megan carter glp 1 ⚡ It's time for this week's Friday Featured Friend! ⚡ Today, I am highlighting the incredible Karen Shields-Phillips who is the ACNO at Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital and VP of Procedural… My Insurance Won't Cover GLP-1

2025 Jul;33(7):1232-1236

The same CDC report reveals that nearly 8% of Americans were severely obese in 2015-2016, up from 5.7% in 2007-2008

The expanded FDA approvals of GLP1 drugs for cardiovascular disease, metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) 9 and potentially other comorbidities (other renal, respiratory and neurological conditions) has broadened access to new patient populations

Results showed that if all patients stayed on treatment, people taking Wegovy pill once-daily along with a reduced-calorie diet and exercise achieved an average weight loss of about 17% (16.6%) versus about 3% (2.7%) with placebo

Participants with severe MASLD had increases of genera Eubacterium , Bacteroides , Roseburia , Ruminococcus , Slackia , Holdemanella , Bilophila and decreases of Alloprevotella , Paraprevotella , Prevotella , Olsenella , Oribacterium , Romboutsia , Desulfovibrio , Dialister